This is an analysis of the poem Squattings that begins with:
Very late, when he feels his stomach churn,
Brother Milotus, one eye on the skylight whence the sun, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc daXXeX faghX eihdifhggXcbgjXddccXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 10100111011101 1101010101011 11001101101001 110010110111 01001010101111 11100101 0111011011010 101011 10010001100 11010100111 0110000111 1101001010101 1011010101010 1000110100001 01101010100110 01011010 11011000010 101010101101 100100011010000110 10101001 1011101001100 011001101110 1101110110 10111100 10001001010010101 0100110101 011010101 1100011000101 1001001 1001001011 111001 10110010 0110011 010110110110101 0100110100011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Squattings;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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